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IN NO EVENT SHALL WASABI SYSTEMS, INC 28.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 29.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 30.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 31.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 32.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 33.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 34.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 35.\" 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd January 16, 2021 39.Dt MPT 4 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm mpt 43.Nd LSI Fusion-MPT SCSI/Fibre Channel driver 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45To compile this driver into the kernel, 46place the following lines in your 47kernel configuration file: 48.Bd -ragged -offset indent 49.Cd "device scbus" 50.Cd "device mpt" 51.Ed 52.Pp 53Alternatively, to load the driver as a 54module at boot time, place the following line in 55.Xr loader.conf 5 : 56.Bd -literal -offset indent 57mpt_load="YES" 58.Ed 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62driver provides support 63for the LSI Logic Fusion-MPT family of 64.Tn SCSI , 65.Tn Fibre Channel 66and 67.Tn SAS 68controllers. 69.Sh HARDWARE 70The following controllers are supported by the 71.Nm 72driver: 73.Pp 74.Bl -bullet -compact 75.It 76LSI Logic 53c1030, 77LSI Logic LSI2x320-X 78(Single and Dual Ultra320 79.Tn SCSI ) 80.It 81LSI Logic AS1064, 82LSI Logic AS1068 83.Pq Tn SAS/SATA 84.It 85LSI Logic FC909 86(1Gb/s 87.Tn Fibre Channel ) 88.It 89LSI Logic FC909A 90(Dual 1Gb/s 91.Tn Fibre Channel ) 92.It 93LSI Logic FC919, 94LSI Logic 7102XP-LC 95(Single 2Gb/s 96.Tn Fibre Channel ) 97.It 98LSI Logic FC929, 99LSI Logic FC929X, 100LSI Logic 7202XP-LC 101(Dual 2Gb/s 102.Tn Fibre Channel ) 103.It 104LSI Logic FC949X 105(Dual 4Gb/s 106.Tn Fibre Channel ) 107.It 108LSI Logic FC949E, 109LSI Logic FC949ES 110(Dual 4Gb/s 111.Tn Fibre Channel PCI-Express) 112.El 113.Pp 114The 115.Tn Ultra 320 SCSI 116controller chips supported by the 117.Nm 118driver can be found onboard on many systems including: 119.Pp 120.Bl -bullet -compact 121.It 122Dell PowerEdge 1750 through 2850 123.It 124IBM eServer xSeries 335 125.El 126.Pp 127These systems also contain Integrated RAID Mirroring and Integrated 128RAID Mirroring Enhanced which this driver also supports. 129.Pp 130The 131.Tn SAS 132controller chips are also present on many new AMD/Opteron based systems, 133like the Sun 4100. 134Note that this controller can drive both SAS and SATA 135drives or a mix of them at the same time. 136The Integrated RAID Mirroring 137available for these controllers is poorly supported at best. 138.Pp 139The 140.Tn Fibre Channel 141controller chipset are supported by a broad variety of speeds and systems. 142The 143.Tn Apple 144Fibre Channel HBA is in fact the 145.Tn FC949ES 146card. 147.Pp 148This driver also supports target mode for Fibre Channel cards. 149This support may be enabled by setting the desired role of the core via 150the LSI Logic firmware utility that establishes what roles the card 151can take on - no separate compilation is required. 152.Sh WARNINGS 153Most controllers supported by the 154.Nm 155driver suffer from limitations on supported disk size (mostly <2TB). 156While most controllers will truncate usable disk size, others might 157behave unexpectedly and can cause severe data loss. 158Refer to the datasheet of the chipset and firmware version for information 159about supported disk size and limitations. 160.Sh SEE ALSO 161.Xr cd 4 , 162.Xr ch 4 , 163.Xr da 4 , 164.Xr mps 4 , 165.Xr pci 4 , 166.Xr sa 4 , 167.Xr scsi 4 , 168.Xr targ 4 , 169.Xr gmultipath 8 , 170.Xr mptutil 8 171.Rs 172.%T "LSI Logic Website" 173.%U http://www.lsi.com/ 174.Re 175.Sh HISTORY 176The 177.Nm 178driver first appeared in 179.Fx 4.6 . 180.Sh AUTHORS 181.An -nosplit 182The 183.Nm 184driver was originally written for 185.Fx 186by 187.An Greg Ansley 188and marginally improved upon 189by 190.An Matt Jacob Aq Mt mjacob@FreeBSD.org . 191.Pp 192.An Justin Gibbs Aq Mt gibbs@FreeBSD.org 193and 194.An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org 195have made more substantial improvements. 196